Just wondering if anyone on here has experience managing a severely autistic adult (age 31) through the trauma of several extractions under general anesthetic at hospital ??
Patient is severely traumatised by a similar experience aged 12 so can't be "fully informed" prior to the event. If we tell him then he will refuse to co-operate and won't get treated and all the months of planning and chasing the NHS will be in vain. He would otherwise enter "middle age" with a mouthfull of bad teeth so this IS in his "best interests".
We have done our best to give him some warning but this is going to be a "life-changing experience" for him (and us). Plan is to "gently entice" him to visit the hospital car park and then inject him with Ketamine and let the surgeons take over.
Has anyone done this before ?? If so then what strategies did they adopt and what helped with....
- Wound management (stopping him harming himself)?
- Feeding with a mouthful of blood clots and stitches?
- Helping him come to terms with "the event"?
- Etc Etc.
Thanks for any advice offered
PT and AT (Mum and Dad).